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Boone Smith

Big cat tracker

Boone Smith is a big cat tracker who has spent 20 years catching a total of nearly 500 cougars and pumas in Chile, California, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Colorado and collaring or marking more than 150 of them. A fourth-generation tracker and houndman raised on a cattle ranch in southeast Idaho, Smith has used his expertise to gather data on big cats, their behavior and their landscape to help scientists with conservation studies. Boone is the host of Man v. Lion, which kicks off Nat Geo WILD’s Big Cat Week (Nov. 28 – Dec. 3) an extension of the Big Cats Initiative, a long-term commitment by the National Geographic Society to stop poaching, save habitat and sound the call that big steps are needed to save big cats around the world.

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